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How’s It Going?: Nice Glass Of Tea Edition

The weekend is here, it’s time to relax, kick off your shoes and find a nice chair. Oh and it’s time for another open thread! Finally, after what I believe was 17 years, warmer weather is returning to my neck of the woods out here in Kansas. Which means it’s the perfect time to start…

Assassin’s Creed Developer Shares Funny Story About Last Minute Changes To Original Game [Correction]

Some of the original Assassin’s Creed’s side missions were added during a short five-day sprint, according to a viral Twitter thread shared online today. Correction: May 23, 12:50 p.m.: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that all of the game’s side missions were added at the last minute. That was an incorrect interpretation…

Please Enjoy This Giant Nintendo DS

Hello! This week we learn about the latest Twitch controversy, celebrate the 40th anniversary for Pac-Man, check out the new Paper Mario game and look at some REALLY big Nintendo DS consoles. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week A fantastic and well written deep dive into one of the most famous arcade games ever…

Ubisoft confirmed to Kotaku that after Area F2 was recently removed from Google and Apple’s app stores by Ejoy.com, it has now dropped a lawsuit against those three companies. The suit was filed last week over the mobile game, which Ubisoft called a “near carbon copy” of Rainbow Six Siege.

Museum Experts Weigh In On Animal Crossing New Horizons’ Museum

In order to get some museum experts to join me on a tour of Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ museum, I had to spend a recent Friday afternoon converting my living room into a makeshift streaming studio. One of them had a copy of the game; the other didn’t. So, I needed to prop up my…

Let’s Settle Splatoon’s Mayo vs. Ketchup War, With Science

Splatoon 2′s first post-launch Splatfest kicks off tomorrow, and fans are passionately rallying for their favorite the upcoming Mayo Vs. Ketchup battle. Snacktaku removes passion and common sense from the equation to try and determine a winner using the magic of snack science. Originally posted 8/03/17. Re-upped in honor of this weekend’s encore of Splatoon…

Insignia Project Aims To Resurrect Xbox Live For The Original Xbox

Word emerged Wednesday of a new project, called Insignia, that aims to recreate the original Xbox Live service, potentially restoring online play to many dozens of classic Xbox games that fell offline when the original Xbox Live service (hereafter, “Xbox Live”) closed on April 15, 2010. The project’s announcement on the r/originalxbox subreddit came from…

Overwatch Player Uses New Feature To Fuse Entire Team Into A Single, Hulking Monstrosity

Overwatch is, at its core, a game about teamwork. Individual heroes do their own things—Reinhardt shields, Mercy heals, and Genji dies—but they’re ultimately contributing to a greater whole. One player, Andy Bohan, has gone and made that idea all too literal. I’m talking “end of Akira” literal. As part of the Overwatch public test server’s…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for a long weekend, which is kind of a ripoff when you have to stay inside but is welcome nonetheless. More time to play video games, I guess! I’m probably the only person in the world who has never actually played GTA V, which I always flirted with buying on Steam sale…

Instead of filling downtown Atlanta with anime and gaming cosplayers, this year’s installment of MomoCon is happening online. The popular convention is hosting streaming events on Twitch all weekend, with guests including Suda 51 and David Hayter, exclusive merchandise, and even its own Animal Crossing islands.

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Pac-Man Is Getting His Own Version Of Super Mario Maker

As part of Pac-Man’s 40th birthday celebrations, Bandai Namco and Amazon just announced Pac-Man Live Studio, a new game that lets you play multiplayer and upload custom maps. While it’ll include the classic, original way to play the game, Live Studio also includes the tools to create your own levels, as well as play them…

Racing Cockpit Makers Use Fake Gran Turismo 7 Logo, Scold Media For Noticing

There’s no such thing as Gran Turismo 7… well, publicly at least. That’s why, when a mysterious logo for the unannounced game showed up in an advertisement for gaming peripherals, fans and reporters took notice. Turns out, the entire fiasco was a mistake on the part of the manufacturer, but the people there who are…

Don’t Talk To Me Or My Son Cloud Strife Ever Again

Max Berthelot is a character designer and illustrator based in Tokyo, who has done work for companies like Level-5. You can see more of Max’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Naughty Dog’s Latest Tweet Is Troll-Proof Thanks To New Twitter Feature

Naughty Dog tweeted out some Last of Us II art with a reminder about the game’s release date today. Thanks to a new Twitter feature, it was one of the first tweets in recent weeks that’s replies weren’t filled with spoilers and vitriol. “Pick up where we left off on June 19,” the tweet read.…

Pac-Man, The Japanese Game That Took Over The World, Turns 40

May 22, 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of a moment that shook the video game industry and profoundly changed the way we play: the debut of Pac-Man, which first hit arcades in Japan on May 22, 1980. Pac-Man is a maze game in which the eponymous hero munches dots while dodging multicolored ghosts, racing for…

These Button-Less Controllers Are An Affront To God

I was minding my own business last night, gaming real hard like I do, when I took a break from blasting away grubs in Gears Tactics to check Twitter. It didn’t take long before for the powers that be punished me for my poor choices by forcing me to look at an old PlayStation controller…

PSA: Civilization VI Is Free On The Epic Games Store Right Now

Everyone likes a good discount, but nothing beats a 100-percent markdown. Each week, for those who don’t know, the Epic Games Store gives out a free game, no strings attached. All you need is an Epic Games Store account. (Okay, fine, so maybe there’s one string.) During the current Mega Sale—a month-long event in which…

It’s Legit Thrilling Watching This Man Solve An Intense Sudoku Puzzle

“I’m not sure I’ve got the adjectives to describe what is going on here,” Sudoku expert Simon Anthony says in an absolutely must-watch video of him solving a Sudoku puzzle. “This is like the universe is singing to us here.” Minutes earlier, he had declared: “This is probably now going to be impossible.” The video…

Borderlands 3‘s Next Big Expansion Will Be A Western

Gearbox announced the third big expansion for Borderlands 3 today. It’s called Bounty of Blood: A Fistful of Redemption. It’s a western (sling those 87 bazillion guns, Vault Hunters) and it’s out on June 25. Announced during today’s episode of “The Borderlands Show,” Bounty of Blood will be all about “revenge and redemption” (like a…